PhD Studentship: The Double Life of E. coli as Benign Commensal and Deadly Pathogen: the COHORT-Microbiome Study University of Oxford in United Kingdom

Fully-funded PhD opportunity in Bat Virology and Metagenomics at the University of Essex , in collaboration with the Quadram Institute and the West Yorkshire Bat Group (WYBG) . The project, titled Virome Dynamics and Viral Discovery in Rehabilitated Bats Revealed by Longitudinal Metagenomics , will investigate how viral communities change in bats during rehabilitation. The research uses longitudinal sampling , shotgun metagenomics , and viral genome discovery , with strong links to virology , mi...

[UK/Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year) and additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD Studentship through the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme on the theme of pathogen emergence and zoonotic risk. This project asks a fundamental question in infectious disease research: how do bacterial pathogens emerge from an...

PhD scholarship opportunity at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland . The project areas include hospital and NICU pathogen and microbiome sampling and/or developing new machine learning methods to characterise hospital-associated microbiomes . This is a strong fit for students with interests in genomics , microbiology , computational biology , microbiome research , and machine learning . Eligibility: applicants must have an MSc degree . Application: email or message the poster with your...

[UK/Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year). Additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum is also available.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD Studentship titled Phage Power: Optimising Treatments for Bacterial Co-Infections through the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme. This project sits within a timely and important area of biomedical research, addre...

[UK/Home tuition fees plus a stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year); additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is advertising a PhD studentship focused on developing CRISPR-Cas antimicrobials to tackle the spread of antibiotic resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae . This project sits within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme , which offers up to 18 funded ...